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Dan,
Joe and I go around as to what did and what did not constitute an aerial loss, but the bottom line is whatever the Soviets and Chinese claim (we'll ignore the KPAFAC for the reasons of ludicrous claims cited previously) is not necessarily what happened.
The Soviets can CLAIM 1106 kills in air-to-air combat but the REALITY is that far fewer than that went down -- something as near as I can tell to around 120-200 that can nominally be claimed by them. (As an aside, out of that 1,106 as of last week I am pretty sure 107 were actually claims by UAA pilots (e.g. Chinese or Koreans flying joint missions with the Soviets.) That only leaves 999 claims by VVS pilots.
Ditto the Chinese, as I so far cannot fit more than about 20 actual claims to actual losses. The Chinese are worse as they give few dates and only avowals of their prowess, so there is no good way to match them up. One source claimed out of 271 UAA claims 206 were Chinese and 65 were Korean, and out of 231 losses 144 were Chinese and 87 were Korean.
FAA claims only match with one MiG loss, not two.
Cookie Sewell
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